Social media usage among teens is more prevalent than ever before. In recent years, researchers have begun investigating how much social media affects teen weight concerns and body image issues. A new ...

As a therapist, I often hear people say, “I’ll be happier once I lose weight,” or “I’d feel better if I liked how I look.” Yet for most, that finish line keeps moving. True happiness rarely begins in ...

Abstract: Accurately reconstructing high-fidelity human models from single images is critical for virtual reality applications. Existing methods often rely on 3D features from the estimated parametric ...

The Shroud of Turin is a famous artifact with obscure origins. How and when it was made has long been the subject of debate among many scientists, historians and religious leaders, alike. The two most ...

At just 23 years old, my life as a professional dancer has been filled with experiences most people only dream of — gold medals, international travel and training with legends. But behind the ...

Eating disorders are severe mental disorders that significantly impact a person’s emotional well-being, physical health, and everyday functioning. All eating disorders are characterized by ...

Abstract: This paper introduces novel evaluation metrics for quantifying distortion in human image retouching and presents a COCO-based retouched image dataset to validate their effectiveness. The ...

On March 2, 2016, at around 9 A.M. local time, in Kazakhstan, Scott Kelly plunged through the Earth’s atmosphere in a Soyuz spacecraft travelling at seventeen thousand miles an hour. As expected, ...